Psychic Squad — Season 1, Episode 26: Change the prediction, the future is surprising!

Episode synopsis

A mission to defuse a bomb hidden in a Ferris wheel demonstrating the inherent limitation of precognition and influencing the future (Aoi successfully evacuating all the passengers while the inattentive Kaoru allows the Wheel to fall in the water and the frenzied news coverage thereof) gives way to The Children being charged a new assignment: prevent the prediction of a level 7 precognitor who has predicted his own death. After being conscripted into water-skiing with his esper charges, Taizou explains to Minamoto that this precognitor's predictions are never wrong —- and hence can never be prevented. Much to everybody's surprise, the level 7 precognitor is a manufactured wartime esper -- much like Momotarou. After explaining the circumstances of his death in a resigned cavalier manner, the precognitor Lieutenant Ikyuugo states a prediction solely for Minamoto to be prevented at all costs -- a mortal confrontation with an adult Kaoru in battle in the ruins of a war-time city. Minamoto reassuring/comforting Kaoru quickly gives way to The Normal People anti-esper organization attacking the island with mortal designs for Taizou apparently having planned/rehearsed in advance. Seeing their leader in mortal danger, Kaoru and her teammates intervene after guiding Ikyuugo out to sea only for The Normal People to make an unsuccessful subsequent attempt upon Taizou's life. Frustrated that he was so close to foiling Ikyuugo's prediction (of his mortal sacrifice to protect Taizou), the injured Minamoto is comforts Kaoru and her teammates as he firmly resolves to pre-empt the earlier showdown prediction.

About Psychic Squad

They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls!

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Absolutely Lovely! Their Name Is
• E2Don't Worry! The Soaring Tower of BABEL
• E3A Virtuous Person! Being an Esper is Tough
• E4Beautiful Spring Scenery! Go Go Pretty Female High-School Student
• E5Unpreparedness is Your Greatest Enemy! You Wouldn't Normally Enter
• E6Superiority Quarrel! In Front of Your Classmate's Eyes...!?
• E7Very Ordinary! Restricted Children
• E8Hyōbu Kyōsuke! What, He Showed Up?
• E9Attractive Bodies! We Are Adults!?
• E10Danger Awaits! Hurry, BABEL 2!!
• E11Hot Springs! Shining Eyes in the Steam
• E12The Long Road Ahead! Teleporting Japan's Future!!